Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grandfather, the late William Walter Phelps, was (1889-93) U. S. Ambassador to Germany.* The grandson is an ambassador of the sidewalks to the agronomists and small-towners at Albany-fat-faced, loud, generous, shrewd, a smoker of cigars at every waking moment. He professes not even to afford a motorcar in which to battle Matron Pratt...
...competitors for the nomination. General Sherburne cried out about "a scandal which would be comparable with the scandals in Illinois and Pennsylvania. . . . In a year when our supreme effort is being directed toward the carrying of Massachusetts for Herbert Hoover by an emphatic majority, we can ill afford a repetition of the Vare or Smith disgraces...
Charles Wakefield Cadman considered, George Gershwin dickered, Irving Berlin contracted last week to write musical themes for the new sound-pictures, the audible cinema. The field offers each composer good opportunity to apply his peculiar virtuosity. Each will certainly receive rich fees. The movies can afford to pay. A single picture house, the Roxy Theatre, in Manhattan, rarely receives less than $110,000 a week from admissions. Its income for four weeks of Street Angel (with Movietone) was $479,000. That, however, was a record...
...sympathize because once he knew the life of active politics himself. In 1922 all was arranged for him to have the Senate seat which Maryland's bumbling Bruce now occupies. Pundit Kent turned it down but only, they say, because he felt he could not afford...
...Naturally, the ramifications of the world's largest industry, namely, petroleum, in which all three of us are interested, affords and will always afford a wide field for conversation...